The very being of man (both external and internal) is the deepest communication. To be means to communicate. Absolute death (non-being) is the state of being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered…. To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself
God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him. It is like one of those traps whereby the characters are tested in fairy stories and tales on initiation. If I accept this gift it is bad and fatal; its virtue becomes apparent through my refusal of it. God allows me to exist outside himself. It is for me to refuse this authorization
Humility is the refusal to exist outside God. It is the queen of virtues.
Our existence is made up only of his (God) waiting for our acceptance not to exist. He is perpetually begging from us that existence which he gives. He gives it to us in order to beg it from us.
His love for us is love for himself through us. Thus, he who gives us our being loves in us the acceptance of not being.
We are a part which has to imitate the whole.
If my eyes are blindfolded and if my hands are chained to a stick, this stick separates me from things but I can explore them by means of it. It is only the stick which I feel, it is only the wall which I perceive. It is the same with creatures and the faculty of love. Supernatural love touches only creatures and goes only to God. It is only creatures which it loves (what else have we to love?), but it loves them as intermediaries.
This world, in so far as it is completely empty of God, is God himself
The self is only the shadow which sin and error cast by stopping the light of God, and I take this shadow for a being.
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
Little Bristling Soul 